Smart Grid: 7 Reasons Why It Matters

With the Obama Administration having earmarked $3.4 billion in Recovery Act funds to spur the energy industry's transition to a smart energy grid, the impetus is clearly there for utilities to start making progress on this important modernization of the nation's energy delivery system. Oracle polled C-level executives from its substantial roster of energy industry clients, providing a glimpse at where the smart grid transition effort stands.

What Oracle found is that while progress may appear glacial, with just one in five utilities saying it's moving forward on system-wide smart grid deployment, many are simply in an earlier stage on that path, and most have substantial expectations regarding what the smart grid will deliver. The following slides provide a snapshot of how utility executives view the transition.

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